Release Digest: GNOME, November 11, 2003

Openbox 3.0

Application

Openbox 3.0

Description

Window manager based on current standards, simplicity, and
flexibility.

Enhancements

A completely new window manager, compliant with the latest
standards, fully functional as a drop-in replacement for metacity,
and faster than anything you’ve ever seen.

Download

http://openbox.org/releases/openbox-3.0.tar.gz

GNOME Software Map
entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/openbox

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orbitcpp 1.3.8

orbitcpp

orbitcpp provides a C++ CORBA mapping for ORBit2. It is used by
GNOME’s Bonobo C++ bindings, libbonobomm and libbonobouimm.

orbitcpp requires ORBit > 2.5, such as that used by GNOME
2.2.

orbitcpp is based on the old ORBit/C++ project for ORBit 1.

For more information:
http://orbitcpp.sourceforge.net

Changes

Mostly a bug fix release. Thanks to all those who reported and
helped fix bugs:

1.3.8:

• Access specifier fix for GCC version 3.3.x.
• Improved support for inhibited inclusion (#101455).
• Improved exception handling (memory management and correct
  identification of exceptions).
• Improved support for re-opened modules (#123995).

Download

You can download it from
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/orbitcpp/
or the mirrors when they update.

Development

See the website:
http://orbitcpp.sourceforge.net

—
Bowie Owens

CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences

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gLabels 1.92.3

Application

gLabels 1.92.3

Description

gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and
business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to
work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card
sheets that you“ll find at most office supply stores.

Enhancements

Fixes

• Fixes a crash that occured when changing zoom level after
  objects have been deleted.
• Templates with a page size of “Other” are once again
  supported.

Download

http://glabels.sourceforge.net/download/

GNOME Software Map
entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/glabels

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Glade 2.0.1

Application

Glade 2.0.1

Description

A user interface builder for GTK+ 2 & GNOME 2.

The official web site is:
http://glade.gnome.org/

Enhancements

• Bug fixes.

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glade/2.0/

Damon

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Liferea 0.4.4

Application

Liferea 0.4.4

Description

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF news aggregator which
also supports CDF channels, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds, and OCS
directories. It’s intended to be a clone of the Windows-only
FeedReader.

Enhancements

• Source now should build on Solaris (added a strsep()
  replacement, reported by Fernando Durango).
• When adding feeds, the feed is now inserted after the selected
  treeview entry and not at the end of the folder.
• Using feed type auto detection now doesn’t require two
  downloads of the feed anymore.
• Added support for a systray (notification area) icon.
• Added a menubar. You can now enable/disable menubar and
  toolbar.
• Added a “Next Unread Item” option to jump to the next feed with
  an unread item like in many mail/news clients.
• The program now remembers and restores its window size.
• After updating a feed the program now prints a status bar
  message “no new items…” or “xx new items…”. Older versions
  showed and did not remove a “Downloading…” status bar
  message.
• Simple support for the OCS 0.5 draft.

Fixes

• Fixed a segfault when creating a folder and immediatly
  subscribing to a feed in this folder.

Download

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/liferea/liferea-0.4.4.tar.gz?download

GNOME Software Map
entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/liferea

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gFTP 2.0.16

I am pleased to announce the availability of gFTP 2.0.16 on
http://www.gftp.org/. Here is a
list of changes since version 2.0.15:

• Fixed bug where the local directory listing was not updated
  when connecting to a bookmarked site.
• Fix for Novell directory paths (//share/directory)
• Local: If there is a dangling symlink in the local directory,
  not all of the files were being shown.
• FTP: Fixed rename bug
• FTP: Fixed editing the FTP proxy config in the GTK+ 2.0
  port.
• FTP: Better error checking when establishing the data
  connection.
• FTP: File transfers are aborted correctly. You will not lose
  your connection to the remote server.
• FTP: Ascii file transfers fix.
• HTTP: Fixed parsing some chunked file transfers.
• SSH: Fixed crash when deleting subdirectories.
• When editing remote files, and if the current directory is
  changed on the remote server, make sure the file is still uploaded
  to the proper location.
• When editing a remote file, if the connection to the remote
  server times out, immediately reconnect when the file is
  uploaded.
• DND cleanups
• If the source is compiled with -D_GNU_SOURCE, then use the
  current style for the current locale to separate numbers.
• In some cases, if the remote_charset is defined for the remote
  host, convert the current string from UTF8 to the users remote
  character set.
• Fixed Cray directory directory listings. Also, some UNIX
  directory listings that had files with multiple spaces were being
  mistaken for Cray directory listings.
• The README/FAQ is now stored in Docbook format.
• New language translations and updates (az bn el es hr it ja nl
  no pt ro sk sr)
• Many other small changes and improvements. See the ChangeLog
  file in the distribution for a detailed list of changes.

MD5SUMs:

94069bfbfdebd5f00eb881fe9440534b ftp gftp-2.0.16.tar.gz
a51cbe1a9077fba4e12218cd02ebefdf ftp gftp-2.0.16.tar.bz2
d4e0eb9a20d7a24abe1bf973f49a2f5e ftp gftp_2.0.16-1_i386.deb
92a085cca2886b8efdbfc251d6b0cb67 ftp
gftp-common_2.0.16-1_i386.deb
8e9cd99cdd9e6cbd8eb79df4655fc4d3 ftp gftp-gtk_2.0.16-1_i386.deb
52e4d0795ffeb84410de4c441916dc65 ftp
gftp-text_2.0.16-1_i386.deb
84360c1b24ed4a5b95570b81305d50c8 ftp gftp-2.0.16-1.i386.rpm
aae82ae724599eb5937b6d98829461cb ftp gftp-2.0.16-1.src.rpm

I would like to thank everyone that has submitted patches, bug
reports, translations, or offered ideas for improvements.

Brian

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Epiphany 1.0.6

Hi,

What is it?

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering
engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.

What’s changed?

Epiphany 1.0.6

Bugfixes:

• Fix a crash in the bookmarks editor (Marco)
• Fix session resume (Marco)
• Fix RDF export to encode entities (Christian)
• Fix session saving to encode entities (Christian)
• Fix recovery from corrupted toolbar layout file
  (Christian)

Translations:

• ko (Changwoo Ryu)

Where can I get it?

Source code:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.0/epiphany-1.0.6.tar.bz2

Epiphany 1.0.6 requires Mozilla 1.4, 1.4.1, or 1.5.
The suggested version is Mozilla 1.5:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5/src/mozilla-source-1.5.tar.gz

More about dependencies and installation tips:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/downloads.html

Regards,

Christian

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Yelp 2.4.2

Application

Yelp 2.4.2

Description

Help browser for GNOME 2.4 which supports DocBook documents,
info and man.

Changes

• Fix problem and potential crash in info converter. Patch
  submitted by both Joe Marcus Clarke and Roderich Schupp
• Updated translations:
  el (Nikos Charonitakis)
  ko (Changwoo Ryu)
  hi (Guntupalli Karunakar)
  lv (Peteris Krisjanis)
  kn (Pramod)

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/yelp/2.4/

GNOME Software Map
entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/yelp

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gnocl 0.5.13

gnocl 0.5.13 is available at

http://www.dr-baum.net/gnocl/

This release features many small enhancements and bug fixes.
This includes the ability to set the destination directory in the
installation process, a new subcommand removePage for the notebook
widget, new callback functions onKeyPress and onKeyRelease for
window, dialog and canvas, new callback functions onRowExpanded and
onRowCollapsed for the tree widget, new subcommands setCursor and
getNumChildren for tree and list, the possibility to add widgets to
the status bar and fixes and additions to the documentation. For a
detailed list of changes see the NEWS file.

gnocl is a GTK+ / Gnome extension for the programming language
Tcl, loosely modeled after the Tk package. It provides easy to use
commands to build quickly GTK+ / Gnome compliant applications
including canvas widget, GConf and drag and drop. It consists of
several libraries: one for GTK+ widgets, one for the Gnome canvas
widget and one for the GConf database.

This version has been tested with GTK+ 2.2.1, Gnome 2.2.0 and
Tcl 8.4.2 under Linux. A FreeBSD port is also available.

License: BSD type (same as Tcl)
Homepage: http://www.dr-baum.net/gnocl/

Contact: Peter G. Baum (peter@dr-baum.net)

GNOME Software Map
entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnocl

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gi8k-1.2

Application

gi8k 1.2

Description

A small applet that lets Dell notebook users monitor their CPU
temperature and fans.

Features

See how hot you CPU is running easily in your Gnome panel. See
which fans are running and how fast. Background changes color in
relation to the CPU temperature. Clicking on the applet allows you
to manually adjust the speed of the fans. (NEW)
Temperature display in celcius or fahrenheit. Option to show fan
speeds or show temperature in both celcius and fahrenheit.

Download

http://people.wm.edu/~eweuba

GNOME Software Map
entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gi8k/

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galculator 1.1.4

Application

galculator 1.1.4

Description

a GTK 2 based scientific calculator featuring algebraic mode as
well as RPN, different number bases (decimal, hexadecmimal, octal
and binary) and angle bases (radiant, degree, grad).

Enhancements

RPN mode update release:

• finite (x,y,z,t)/infinite stack in RPN.
• display RPN stack.
• option to remember RPN stack on exit.
• new RPN functions; rolldown and swap x y.
• memory save, memory read and constant retrieval are “stronger”
  events now.
• bugfixes.
• translation updates.

Download

http://galculator.sourceforge.net/download_frame.html

GNOME Software Map
entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/galculator

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Marlin 0.2

Hideho neighbours

In celebration that I’ve written 1333 words of a 2000 word essay
(“What is Practical Theology?”) I thought I’d release Marlin 0.2. I
kinda wanted to release it ages ago, but then I got distracted by
doing stuff in GStreamer and kept meaning to release
rillyrillysoonhonest. So it just sort of sat there, and I figured
I’d get it released so that people could test it and break it, and
so that people didn’t think it was another dead project
etcetcetc.
So please download, test and break it.
And tell me.
And I’ll get back to it once I get my essay sorted out. Or whenever
I need a break from writing it.

What is Marlin?

Its a Sample Editor.
It edits Samples.
It uses GNOME and GTK+2
It looks pretty

What’s changed? Ermmm

• We do stuff with any metadata a file may have.
• Should load and save markers in wavfiles if you have a recent
  enough GStreamer (HEAD branch)
• More paste options, and more silly features like halving
  selections
• Hmmm…
• Oh, the CD ripp^wextractor should work again, and if you have
  Musicbrainz installed it’ll get details from there and use them in
  naming samples.
• Markers can be added and editted and used for minor editting
  jobs
• In the file selector there’s preview details of sound
  samples.
• Errr…
• Bound to be other stuff I’ve forgotten (Can you tell I’m
  putting lots of thought into this announcement?)
• Oh yeah…
• It has a thumbnail of the whole sample in the overview bar now.
  Soundforge doesn’t even do that!

What does it look like?
http://marlin.sourceforge.net/marlin-track-marker.png
is a good screenshot. There’s others kicking around that site. Some
are out of date.

Where can I get it?
Rumour has it you can download it here
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53043
You shouldn’t always believe rumours though…

Can I help?
Please do, I have no real clue what I’m doing. In fact as David
Devant and His Spirit Wife once sang “We’re making it up as we go
along, humming a half remembered song. When we woke up, we thought,
whats the big deal…then we remembered, this is for real”. Only
the first line of that really was relevant, but I thought I’d do
the whole thing. People to work on docs would be nice…translators
too. Testers really welcome, and audio engineers can tell me what
they want Marlin to do. I’d love to have feedback.

What do I need?

GNOME 2.4. It’ll be moving to gnome2.6 base soon, but it’ll
still work on 2.4 for the time being.
If you want track listings in the CD ripp^wextractor then you’ll
need Musicbrainz.
GStreamer 0.7+ is required. HEAD CVS would be preferable cos then
you’ll get extra stuff, but 0.7.1 should be fine if thats all you
have and can’t be bothered fighting Sourceforge’s anoncvs
stuff.

Is there a website?

Yes.

Where is it?

http://marlin.sf.net

Is there a roadmap so we can see where you’re heading?

Yes! I spent hours making one, cos all the cool projects have
one, and we want to at least give the impression we’re a cool
project. http://marlin.sourceforge.net/road-trip2.png

Any art commissioning, just ask me. I’m great at art. You’re
bound to be able to tell.

As usual, all donations of
a) Old guitar effects
b) Fender Jaguar/Telecaster guitars
c) Money
d) Soundcards that work with ALSA and aren’t limited to 48Khz (dumb
Extigy)
e) bugfixes and feature patches
Will be greatfully received, although, and I’m getting realistic
here, not really expected.

Hasta La Vista Baybee!
iain (back to essay time I guess)
—
“Oh gooodie! Another slashdot boycott! I bet this one will be just
as effective as all the previous ones.” (/. post)

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Gweled 0.2

Application

Gweled 0.2

Description

A Bejeweled/Diamond Mine clone for Gnome

Enhancements

• move the score above the board
• add various in-game animations
• redraw all gems and switch to SVG
• optimize the graphic engine (don’t redraw everything all the
  time !)
• rewrite the graphic engine (split the graphic core and the game
  engine)
• integrate properly with Gnome 2 (menu entry)

Fixes

• fix the score (1 small bug left though)
• get rid of the windows, copyrighted, game graphics

Download

http://sebdelestaing.free.fr/gweled/Release/gweled-0.2.tar.gz

Home Page

http://sebdelestaing.free.fr/gweled

GNOME Software Map
entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gweled

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ffmpeg with tv/radio 0.6.0

Application

ffmpeg with tv/radio 0.6.0

Description

Ffmpeg with TV window. FM radio tuner support. User interface of
Control pannel / Channel list / Codec-format). Start/pause/stop
recording.

Enhancements

• User interface of scheduled power-on/off recording/reminding.
  You must install tcron 0.4.3 first (released November 2003)
  http://tcron.sf.net
• From now on, fftv doesn’t overwrite files. It finds a filename
  that can be written.

Fixes

• fftv caused the deadlock of mozilla for some pages
• If fftv was invoked by ffrecord, pressing stop recording caused
  fftv to exit.

Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71197

GNOME Software Map
entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/fftv

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gnome-pkgview 1.0.3

Application

gnome-pkgview 1.0.3 (Langbourne)

Description

Displays the version of desktop components installed, and makes
a stab at your overall GNOME version.

Fixes

• ignore any pesky newlines in the version string

New/Updated Translations

• zh_CN by Wang Jian <lark@linux.net.cn>
• el by Kostas Papadimas <pkst@gnome.org>
• ja by Takeshi Aihana <aihana@gnome.gr.jp>

Download

http://www.greatnorthern.demon.co.uk/packages/gnome-pkgview/

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gnome-mud 0.10.3

Application

gnome-mud 0.10.3

Description

GNOME-Mud is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client, which aims to
make mudding a bit easier.It can define aliases, triggers,
variables. keybind shortcuts and has a connection wizard to easily
manage different player characters and MUDs. GNOME-Mud is the

Changes

• Wizard and profilenames are now escape and can contain “space”
  and other characters. (Bug #117241) [Robin]
• Fix segfaults in Connection Wizard. (Bug #117242) [Robin]
• New translations:
  • az [Metin Amiroff]
  • cs [Miroslav Trmac]
  • ml [FSF-India]
  • nl [Vincent van Adrighem]
  • pl [Artur Flinta]
  • pt [Duarte Loreto]
  • sr [Danilo Ã…| egan]
• Translation updates:
  • ca [Jordi Mallach]
  • de [Christian Neumair]
  • es [Francisco Javier F. Serrador]
  • sv [Christian Rose]
• A lot of translation bugs fixed [Jordi]

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-mud

GNOME Software Map
entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnome-mud

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gnome-panel 2.5.1
gnome-session 2.5.1
gnome-desktop 2.5.1

Hey,

What are they?

gnome-panel contains the GNOME panel which is the area on your
desktop from which you can run applications and applets, and
perform other tasks.

gnome-session contains the GNOME session manager, the GNOME
session manager configuration program and several other session
management related utilities and the GNOME session manager proxy,
which handles basic session management for applications that do not
support XSMP.

gnome-desktop contains the libgnome-desktop library which
contains APIs that really belong in libgnome[ui] but have not seen
enough testing or development to be considered stable. It also
contains documents installed as part of the core GNOME
distribution, e.g. the GPL, GNOME’s .desktop files, the gnome-about
program, some manpages and GNOME’s core graphics files and
icons.

What’s changed?

gnome-panel

Panel

• Implement per-panel and global lockdown keys (George)
• Add a “disabled_applets” key and don’t show those applets
  (George)
• Fix gnome-panel –help not to show the flags twice
  (Vincent)
• Used the folder icon from the icon theme for folders
  (Vincent)
• Use the term “Drag and drop” instead of “DnD” (Vincent)
• Don’t allow vertically centered horizontal panels and vice
  versa (Vincent)
• Link to help for action buttons (Vincent)
• Use the “delete” stock icon for “Delete this panel”
  (Vincent)
• Fix crashing when gdk_property_get_fails (Vincent)
• Snap to 0/100% opacity with a 2% tolerance (Vincent)
• Set revert to insenitive in the launcher editing dialog
  (Vincent)
• Remove the bold labels in the panel properties dialog (Muktha
  Narayan, Vincent)
• Don’t unhide hidden drawers when unhiding the parent panel
  (Mark)
• Use GtkExpander in the run dialog (Mark)
• Don’t allow the panel to autohide when dragging things around
  (Arvind)
• Don’t unhide the panel if we quickly move the pointer in and
  out (Arvind)
• Get translucent applet backgrounds almost working (Vincent,
  John Ellis)
• Remove useless, crufty code (Vincent, Mark)
• Don’t allow the panel to unhide when the properties dialog is
  open (Arvind)

Applets

• Hide the preferences menu items when locked down (George)
• Update help buttons to point to the correct docs (Vincent)
• Allow the PanelApplet’s children to become focusable after
  focusing itself (Padraig)
• Fix a memory leak in libpanel-applet (Kjartan)

Window List

• Remove “visible” from the descipription of the applet
  (Vincent)
• Update to use the new icon from jimmac (Vincent)
• Disable certain preferences when only showing the current
  workspace (Vincent)

Workspace Switcher

• Add a shadow around the workspace list in the preferences
  (Vincent)
• Unselect any selected workspace name when the list is unfocused
  (Vincent)

Window Menu

• Ellipsize the window menu item if its too long (Vincent, Soeren
  Sandmann)
• Update to use the new icon from jimmac (Vincent)
• Don’t refer to the “Window List” in the about dialog
  (Vincent)
• Use the icon theme to lookup the window icon (Vincent)

Show Desktop Button

• Lookup the icon according to the icon theme (Vincent)

Wanda

• Respect the “inhibit_command_line” lockdown preference
  (Vincent)
• Make the “rotate” prefernce false by default – bubbles should
  go up (Vincent)
• De-brand Wanda – she’s a fish, not a “GNOME fish”
  (Vincent)

Clock

• Show week numbers in the calendar (Vincent)
• Better schema description for “internet_time” (Vincent)

Misc

• Help documentation updates (Breda McColgan)
• Add a –enable-deprecations build time flag (Mark)

Translators

• Andras Timar (hu)
• Christian Rose (sv)
• Dafydd Harries (cy)
• David O’Callaghan (ga)
• Elian Myftiu (sq)
• Evandro Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR)
• Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
• Hasbullah Bin Pit (ms)
• Jordi Mallach (ca)
• KAMAGASAKO Masatoshi (ja)
• Kostas Papadimas (el)
• Miloslav Trmac (cs)
• Miÿu Moldovan (ro)
• MÙtin Ãmirov (az)
• Reinout van Schouwen (nl)
• Vaidotas Zemlys (lt)

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gnome-session

Misc

• Add a –enable-deprecations build flag (Mark)

Translators

• Dafydd Harries (cy)
• Miloslav Trmac (cs)

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gnome-desktop

libgnome-desktop

• Remove unnecessary accessibility code (Padraig)
• Use the correct mnemonic widget for the command entry
  (Padraig)

Misc

• Add a –enable-deprecations build flag (Mark)

Translators

• Abel Cheung (zh_TW)
• G Karunakar (hi)
• Jordi Mallach (ca)
• Ole Laursen (da)
• Sanlig Badral (mn)

Where can I get them?

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-panel/2.5/gnome-panel-2.5.1.tar.gz

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-session/2.5/gnome-session-2.5.1.tar.gz

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-desktop/2.5/gnome-desktop-2.5.1.tar.gz

Regards,
Mark.

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ooo-build-1.1.46

OpenOffice.org build:

This package contains the Gnome integration work for
OpenOffice.org, and a much simplified build wrapper, making an OO.o
build / install possible for the common man.[1] It is a staging
ground for up-streaming patches to OO.o.

Lots of great stuff in this release – particularly Dan getting
involved and merging up the large RedHat patch set, which is
great.

Changes in this release:

• features
  • UI fixes
    • much improved OpenSymbol font (Jimmac)
    • improved font mapping (Dan, Michael)
    • more style navigator icons (Tigert)
    • nicer looking ruler scaling (Michael)
    • don’t grey bullets as fields (Michael)
    • prune some ugly symbols (Anil Bhatia)
  • System bits
    • new targets: RHFedora,RHTaroon,RHShrike (Dan)
    • –with-installed-ooo-dirname (Dan)
    • system libdb integration (Dan)
    • faster help linkage (Dan)
    • OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP (Michael, Philipp L, Chris)
    • use OOO_MS_DEFAULTS env. var (Michael)
    • use fork for 2.6 kernels (Ken Foskey, Rene)
  • Red Hat specific patches (Dan, et. al)
    • nautilus/VFS integration bits
    • system neon fix
    • libart cut/paste for old systems
    • system freetype re-hash
  • bug fixes
    • critical
      • parallel / build script fixes (Dan)
      • svx lockup fix (Dan)
      • impress I/O error fix (Martin, Christian L)
      • help / language fallback issue (Chris)
    • misc
      • re-root – only scan CVS dirs (Michael)
      • missing MySQL data source fix (Rene)
      • uno asm fixes (Dan)
      • svtools build deps fix (Michael)
      • improved default font size (Chris)

Package available from:

http://ooo.ximian.com/packages/OOO_1_1_0/ooo-build-1.1.46.tar.gz

To find out more and/or get involved in OOo hacking see http://ooo.ximian.com/ and/or
subscribe to our OO.o development mailing list at:

http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/openoffice.

[1] – assuming the common man has 4Gb+ of spare space and lots
of idle CPU time.
—
michael@ximian.com
<><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot

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DiaCanvas 0.10.0

Well… Better late than never…

I created a tarball last week and called in diacanvas2
0.10.0.

• Much better python support.
• Works on win32.
• New interface: DiaCanvasEditable. Edit your text will all
  features of GtkTextView.
• A simplified DiaCanvasGroupable interface (pos and length are
  no longer needed)

You can find it on SourceForge: http://sf.net/projects/diacanvas

Regards,

Arjan